510
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was pulled down. The marriages were not
celebrated in these houses ; they were a
species of primitive Metropolis and Lang-
hams, where families with limited house
accommodation could entertain the wedding
guests. MATILDA POLLARD.
Belle Vue, Bengeo.
CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS (9 th S. xii. 269, 394). Those of the parish of St. Mary, Thame, Ox., are. being published in the Berks, Bucks, and Oxon ArchceologicalJournal.
Miss LEGA-WEEKES may find the following of service :
Amersham Churchwardens' Accounts. By Rev. F. G. Lee, D.D. Records of Bucks, vii. 43-51.
St. E\ven's, Bristol. By Sir J. Maclean. Trans. Bristol and Glouc. Arch.Soc., xv. 139-82.
A Peep at our Forefathers through Church wardens' Accounts. By Thomas Kemp. Proc. Want'. Field Club, 1891, pp. 37-49.
Early Churchwardens' Accounts of Wandsworth, 1545-58. By Cecil T. Davis. Surrey Arch. Soc., xv. 80-127.
R, J. FYNMORE.
.Sandgate, Kent.
I am greatly obliged to MR. PEACOCK and other correspondents for the references with which they have kindly supplied me. Oddly enough, all including myself until recently seem to have overlooked the copious biblio- graphical list of parish and other accounts in 9 th S. iv. 301, 414, 452 ; v. 63, 207, 513.
ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.
DR. JEREMIAH WAINEWRIGHT (9 th S. xi. 129). As the above has found a place in the
Biographie Universelle,' details of his career are perhaps of sufficient general interest to justify me in replying to some extent to my ? w n query at the above reference. The
Album Studiosorum' of the University of Leyden shows (p. 729) that Jeremias Wyn- reidt, Anglus, matriculated there 9 October 1693, aged twenty ; and (p. 777) that Hag- fordus Wamenright, Britannus, matriculated there 19 September, 1703, aged twenty-two : both as students of medicine.
The dates show that Jeremiah cannot have been the elder brother of the elder Hayford (who was admitted to Gray's Inn in Feb ruary, 1680/1), as I conjectured, but was pro- bably his nephew. The younger Hayford also became M.D ;. and is mentioned by Ralph Thoresby in his ' Topography of Leeds.'
An Anatomical Treatise' was first pub- lished anonymously in 1722 as by "A Member of the College of Physicians." This is some- what remarkable, in view of the fact that up to the year 1836 the Royal College of Physicians of London consisted of fellows, candidates, licentiates, and extra-urbern licen
tiates. In that year the order of candidates
was abolished, and by the by-law of 8 August,
1859, the new order of members was estab-
ished.
The first, second, third, and fifth editions of the 'Mechanical Account,' published respectively in 1707, 1708, 1718, and 1737, are in the British Museum. The fifth has the
Anatomical Treatise' annexed. When was the fourth edition published ? The book against which the ' Brief Remarks ' were addressed was 'A Brief History of the Joint Use of Precom posed Set Forms of Prayer,' published at Cambridge in 1708, and written by Thos. Bennet, M.A., Rector of St. James's, Colchester, and Fellow of St. John's, Cam- bridge. At the earlier reference I mistakenly called him Mr. Burnet.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT
" SILVER TASTER," " POIDER," &c. (9 th S. xii. 288). Halliwell, in his 'Dictionary of Pro- vincialisms,' gives " Tastour, a lytell cuppe to tast wyne, tasse agouster le vin, Pals- grave." Dr. Ash, in his 'Dictionary,' 1775, describes a taster to be a " little cup to taste liquor a dram cup." The latter meaning is also given by Dr. Johnson (1814), and Annan- dale in the 'Imperial Dictionary.'
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
[C. C. B. also refers to Halliwell.]
PETER THE GREAT IN ENGLAND (9 th S. xii. 127, 213). For references see 9 th S. xi. 14, 78, 239, s.v. 'Monarch in a Wheelbarrow.'
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
^IN DROOD ' CONTINUED (9 th S. xii. 389).
Soon after the death of Dickens various
rumours were in circulation as to the story
being finished by other hands. His pub-
lishers, Messrs. Chapman & Hall, therefore
addressed a letter to the Times, stating that
three more numbers were complete in addi-
tion to those which had appeared. "These
numbers," said they, "will be published, and
the fragment will so remain. No other
writer could be permitted by us to complete
the work which Mr. Dickens left." Notwith-
standing thisdefinite pronouncement, rumours
as to the ultimate finishing of the book by
some other hand still remained current. The
name of Wilkie Collins was often suggested,
he being generally considered as the most
likely man to take up the task. As will be
seen by a letter of his, printed at 8 th S. vi.
472, he had actually been approached on the
subject by some one, and had "positively
refused" to have anything to do with it.
But the thing was done all the same, and a
book bearing title as follows was published
